Saturday 1 December 2007

Pomegranets and Pythagoras

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A476606?s_id=3

Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher-mathematician who lived around 500 BC. Among his claims to fame is the abstraction of mathematics [Pythagoras realised, for instance, that numbers are actually abstract objects. He would assert: 16 is just as real a concept as 16 pomegranates.

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